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Briefing: Schooling the next generation in insurance via storytelling

By 2023-10-25T13:02:00

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Insurance is never short of a fascinating narrative, which is why one charity is using storytelling as a mechanism to get children interested in the sector

As a former sociology teacher, I know that storytelling as a method to educate students is powerful, as it can add colour and context to the densest of theories.

Take sociologist Paul Willis’ Learning to Labour study (1977) of boys in a Midlands secondary school that looked at conflict in education.

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